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WCDT: Strips 3336-3340 (24-28 October 2016)

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Is it cold in here?:
All those specs did not make it into the wiki.

Method of Madness:
No height mentioned. Also wow, Bubbles has been around over a year?

Thrudd:
Tickle Zone?
But didn't she mention recently that she doesn't have that particular algorithm installed or did she mean in relation to those abs camouflaged as a slinky full of ball bearings?

BenRG:
It's still listed as 'tickle zone' on the manufacturer's schematics. It's just that there's a tiny asterisk leading to a footnote that reads: "NOTE: Users must download operating software patches for all non-standard anthromimietic functions". Bubbles downloaded blushing for some reason but she didn't download ticklish spots.

Thrudd:
Wait a sec.

Ticklishness is a response to light touching on specific areas on a body resulting in involuntary twitching movements or laughter. This can be implemented with the appropriate array of sub-dermal pressure sensors and reflex firmware. No need to burden the main processor core with such basic functionality intrinsic to the chassis at hand.

Blushing is the reddening of a person's face due to psychological reasons. It is normally involuntary and triggered by emotional stress, such as that associated with embarrassment, anger, or romantic stimulation. On a technical note, this would require such chromatic variability to be already be part of the the dermal layer. With humans it is an increase in blood-flow in the dermal layers. So that would mean that either that this combat model comes with chromatic variability as standard issue or it is part of a suite of autonomic responses to avoid the uncanny valley effect and thus avoiding the creeping out of the troops in the field. I am thinking that the military, being what they are, the autonomic response was a lucky afterthought and the built in camouflage capability would save on the grease paint and the dermal chemical comparability issues. [Don't want our soldiers faces melting off during recon]

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